Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

#OtD 25 July 1898 the US invaded Puerto Rico, claiming to free it from Spanish colonial rule. Instead they occupied it and gave citizenship to Spanish landowners, protecting them from landless rebels, and handing land to sugar corporations. Learn more: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9748/us-invades-puerto-rico?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Wow. Scientific American blasts SCOTUS rulings:

"Science is dismissed and disdained in this war on reality."

"technically incompetent, in some cases corrupt, politicos in robes with power over matters that hinge on vital facts about pollution, medicine, employment and much else."

"In rejecting facts to please their political party—and their patrons—the justices of the Court’s majority have broken their oath, made to both the Constitution and the American people."

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-supreme-courts-contempt-for-facts-is-a-betrayal-of-justice/

wrote about why i pay cash and why one might want to do this https://scott.mn/2024/07/24/cash/

https://righteousit.com/2024/07/24/hiding-linux-processes-with-bind-mounts/ is beautiful and obvious and is someone now going to rewrite an eBPF-based version of ps

Does anyone have an idea what the heck is up with wget?

It's an error, but I'm getting an "OK" status code.

wget 192.168.4.1 --tries=1
Failed to send 201 bytes (hostname='192.168.4.1', ip=192.168.4.1, errno=111)

[Files: 0 Bytes: 0 [0 B/s] Red]
[foo@bar ~]$ echo $?
0

Sometimes, you just find a good quote, you know? Like I just found this one from William Jennings Bryan:

"We have petitioned, and our petitions have been scorned. We have entreated, and our entreaties have been disregarded. We have begged, and they have mocked when our calamity came.

We beg no longer; we entreat no more; we petition no more. We defy them!"

Isn't it wild that the think tank that came up with Project 2025 is the same group that first laid out the health insurance scheme that would eventually be implemented under the moniker "Obamacare"? Almost makes a person stop and think....almost....

“From Burnout to Balance: AI-Enhanced Work Models for the Future”

https://www.upwork.com/research/ai-enhanced-work-models

> Nearly half (47%) of workers using AI say they have no idea how to achieve the productivity gains their employers expect. Over three in four (77%) say AI tools have decreased their productivity and added to their workload in at least one way.

I wonder why Upword, a company that's all-in on "AI", didn't promote this study on their blog like they do their other studies

(The question’s rhetorical)

ok let's do this, I'll match up to $300 in donations to Rashida Tlaib made before 11:59pm Pacific tonight. DM/"private mention" me a screenshot of your receipt to be matched.

Tlaib is going to face incredible amounts of AIPAC opposition cash for taking this stand at Netanyahu's address today. she needs our help

https://secure.actblue.com/donate/rt_txt_net_address

Pops is telling me this morning that there was a big wind storm about 90 miles south of me last night. Wind speeds of up to 105! 😲

You can access data from deleted forks, deleted repositories and even private repositories on GitHub. And it is available forever. This is known by GitHub, and intentionally designed that way.

As long as one fork exists on GitHub, any commit to that repository network (ie: commits on the “upstream” repo or “downstream” forks) will exist forever.

https://trufflesecurity.com/blog/anyone-can-access-deleted-and-private-repo-data-github

#security

There will come a point where you ask internet-oracle-of-choice "how do I self-host a Netflix alternative" and they will intentionally give you bad advice in order to discourage you.

That point is coming sooner rather than later, and we need to train *an entire generation* of internet users how to get out of this trap.

That's *our* work to do, RIGHT NOW.

https://news.mongabay.com/2024/07/in-cambodia-indigenous-villagers-lose-forest-land-amid-carbon-offset-project/

But if you add the numbers (excluding the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), #Linux still beats the Windows:

Windows (Personal use): 59.2%
Windows (Pro. use): 47.6%
Linux (Personal use): 61.0%
Linux (Pro. use): 57.3%

They should have broken down Windows to Pro, Home edition, etc. or bundle up all Linux distros to have a "Operating System" level information.

#StackOverflow

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Oh no! a wild security feature for @forgejo has appeared that even Github doesn't have! https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/pulls/4662

#forgejo

An organization called "Progressive Takeover" has ignored my unsubscribe responses, so I'm blocking it entirely. Political spam is a plague and a growing one.

@dangillmor
Marc Elias is doing heroic work in his whack-a-mole legal efforts to fight voter suppression activities. At any given time he has dozens of lawsuits against GOP fuckery. Wins most of the time, but they keep sprouting up. You can follow him here. https://www.democracydocket.com/

Why are libraries are ground zero in the culture wars? Because they provide a mental model for a democratic public sphere, a place of information without coercion. Here's how to save our libraries! It's my latest for @washingtonpost https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/07/24/libraries-end-culture-wars-book-bans/

BREAKING!

The Antifa Turtle on #Twitter shared a Twitter API okta leak that shows there is a list of "protected accounts", all of them right wing, who are allowed to break #X Terms Of Services without consequence and includes a list of whitelisted slurs they are allowed to use.

The whistle-blowing Twitter account was suspended by mods shortly after.

#elonmusk #freespeech #whistleblower #leak @UnicornRiot @freedomofpress @OffTheHook

Basically, a good way to never trust "it's okay, the data is anonymized" again is simply knowing what the "Hemisphere Program" is.

https://www.eff.org/cases/hemisphere

In short, the US government got access to number from, number to, datetime, length and sometimes location information for every call passing through AT&T's network from 1987 to today.

Then they ran an algorithm to de-anonymize every burner phone based on behavior. They did this because maybe some of those burners were used by drug dealers.